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No. 370,982. Patented Oct. 4, 1887.

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UNITED STATES y PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE W. SMITH, UNION CITY, INDIANA, ASSIGNOR OF ON E-HALF TO CHARLES H. CADWALLADER, OF SAME PLACE.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 370,982, dated October 4, 1887.

Application filed February 7, 1587.

To all whom it may concern..-

Be it known that I, GEORGE WELLS SMITH, of Union City, in the county of Randolph and State of Indiana, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Boxes, of which the following is a specification.

The object of my invention is to provide a box for the transmission of money or other articles of value, so constructed that the contents thereof can be seen by the sender or receiver to discover loss, change, or removal of contents before opening or receiving the same; and the improvement consists in certain novel features in the construction of the box, hereinafter particularly described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a perspective of the box with its end open 5 Fig. 2, a similar representation of the box closed; Fig. 3, a diagram of a sheet of paper or paper-board cut and prepared to be folded to form a box. Fig.' 4 is a sectional view taken on the hackled line drawn through Fig.- 2.

The box is formed with side A, side B, top C, bottoni D, a permanentlyelosed end, E, and an open end, F, covered by an inner Hap, G, connected to the top C, and an outer flap, H, connected to the bottom D of the box. The flap G has strips g, folded to lie, respectively, against the inside of the sides A and B, and a strip, g', folded to lie inside of the bottom D, to form an inner covering for the end of the box. An outer covering for the end of the box is formed by the flap H, having strips h upon its sides,to be inserted between the strips g of the inner ap and the sides A and B of the box, and the said flap H is further provided with a top, h', which may be folded over onto the top of the box to extend to near the middle portion of the box, and be secured thereto by tape, ribbon, or wire I, passed through eyelets l in the box and similar eyelets, l, in the ap.

The box has openings K K K2 K3, of suita- Serial No. 226,865. (Model.)

ble form and size, formed, respectively, upon the top, bottom, sides, and ends of the box, over which pieces of mica, glass, or other transparent material are placed and secured by slits in the box or by an adhesive substance to cover the openings for excluding the dust vwithout shutting off a view of the interior of the box.

The box is preferably cut from a single sheet of paper or paper-board, one end of which has folding sides A-Band bottoni part,D, and top C, to form an exterior casing, and the other end of which has folding sides A B and bottom D and cap G,toform aninterior casing. Theintervening strip forms the closed end E and folding corner-naps E E', which have perforations K', that fold over the perforation K2 at the ends of the sides A and B, to stien and close the corners without covering the openings upon the sides. terior sides, top, and bottom are located to overlie the openings in the interior like parts, and thus provide a strong box, `reenforced upon all sides, with openings passing through and through to disclose the interior thereof.

The box may be made of any suitable materia-l, folded substantially as described, and provided with the means herein specified for closing the end of the box and disclosing the interior thereof.

I claim as my invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent- A safety transparent box cut from a single sheet, having an outer section, A B C D, an inner section, A B C D', la closed end, E, an inner flap, G, and an outer flap, H, the sides or bottoms having openings for the disclosure of the contents of the envelope, substantially as described.

GEO. W. SMITH. [1.. s] Witnesses:

ALLEN JAQUE, OYRUS WooDBUEY.

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